Slow travel, or mindful travel, is like slow fashion (as opposed to fast fashion), slow food (vs. fast food), or #theartofslowliving.
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LESSON: Take daylight hours seriously and plan accordingly. Very seriously. If you’re at all prone to getting stir-crazy, maybe don’t travel to far northern latitudes in the dead of winter.
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True confessions: packing for this trip on the RV was one of the least organized or thoughtful processes I’ve done in a long while. All that got me through was my handy-dandy packing planner.
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The high beams occasionally grazed the red walls sliding by like a sleeping leviathan. We came around a corner and a flash of lightning illuminated the cliffs and mesas that were opening up around us - but only for a second.
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Germany refused to indulge my nostalgia and I don’t blame it.
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I signed another year of my lease and said, “You know what, Nashville, show me what you’ve got.”
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But there’s still a part of me that deeply longs for that transitory lifestyle. To be on the road, to live out of a suitcase, to have a cigar box altar that I set up at each stop - lined with photos of family, prayers for safe crossings, mementos of home, the key to a storage unit.
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